Day 45: Til the Vows Come Home

Monday, August 5

Today was uneventful.

Oh, except that we had a wedding in class.

Not really, though. But there was these two wedding planners that came and talked to us about how the Moroccan weddings work. It was mostly stuff about the bride and her clothes and whatnot... naturally. In Moroccan weddings, the brides usually have 7 dresses, all in different colors. "That's a lot of changing in one day", you say? Well, their weddings are also usually 10-15 days long (or longer, depending on how much money you have). That's a lot of partying. Honestly, if I was the family member constantly going to the same couple's wedding for half a month, I'd be pretty bored already.

But! They did bring one of the wedding dresses with them, and I got to put it on!

I had some difficulties with the crown. I don't have enough hair to pin it to.
The woman just kept saying, "There isn't any. There isn't any." 

One of the boys in our class put on the groom's clothes and we took pictures. The groom's clothes are a little bit lackluster when compared to the bride's, but I suppose that's normal.

Later that night, my friends and I went out with our language partner again. We went to the market first, and I bought a couple things after bargaining the original price of 250 dirhams down to 100 dirhams. That was a sweet deal. Then afterwards, we went to a restaurant / ice cream place called, "Venecia Ice." And we got ice cream... of course. It was faaaantastic.

Vanille and Chocolat

But whilst I was browsing the menu, I happened across a rather interesting dish.

What is that doing there? 

I can't help but wonder how true the flavor is to its name.

Oh, last thing: did I mention that we didn't get our cookies. The one's that WE made last Friday and were promised to receive today? Yeah. They just didn't happen.